An Inventory of Losses

An Inventory of Losses
Judith Schalansky, Jackie Smith
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h198 x 130mm - 256pg
16 Dec 2021 UK
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9781529400786
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A dazzling cabinet of curiosities from one of Europe' s most acclaimed and inventive writers. Judith Schalansky' s strange and wonderful new book, recalling writers as different as W. G. Sebald and Christa Wolf, Joan Didion and Rebecca Solnit, sees her return to the territory she explored so successfully with her best-selling ATLAS OF REMOTE ISLANDS: FIFTY ISLANDS I HAVE NEVER SET FOOT ON AND NEVER WILL, which Robert MacFarlane called "utterly exquisite" (Guardian) and about which Time Out' s reviewer said "Rarely has armchair travel been so farflung and romantic". Judith Schalansky is a wholly original writer whose books articulate perfectly what she wishes to say. Each of the pieces, following the conventions of a different genre, considers something that is irretrievably lost to the world, including the paradisal pacific island of Tuanaki, the Caspian Tiger, the Villa Sacchetti in Rome, Sappho' s love poems, Greta Garbo' s fading beauty, a painting by Caspar David Friedrich, and the former East Germany' s Palace of the Republic. As a child of the former East Germany, it' s not surprising that the dominant emotion in Schalansky' s work should be "loss" and its aftermath, but what is extraordinary is the thoroughly engaging mixture of intellectual curiosity, down-to-earth grasp of life' s pitiless vitality, ironic humour, stylistic elegance and intensity of feeling that combine to make this book a masterpiece and one of the most original and beautifully designed books to be published in 2020. Translated from the German by Jackie Smith
Judith Schalansky was born in Greifswald in former East Germany in 1980 and studied art history and communication design. Her international best-seller, Atlas of Remote Islands, won the Stiftung Buchkunst (the Art Book Award) for "the most beautifully designed book of the year", while her novel The Giraffe' s Neck in the English translation by Shaun Whiteside won a special commendation of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for the best translation from German in 2015. Both books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Schalansky works as a freelance writer and book designer in Berlin, where she is also publisher of a prestigious natural history list, Matthes und Seitz.
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ISBN-13: 9781529400786
Published: 16 Dec 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: MacLehose Press
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 130mm
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 256

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